Nicholas Delbanco
In this episode, host William Miller talks to writer and teacher Nicholas Delbanco, who has published thirty-one books of fiction and nonfiction, including the one they discuss together, his memoir, Still Life at Eighty, begun on his 80th birthday, finished on his 81st. The book and this discussion look over his early embrace of art, his adventures in a family art business in London, the time while an undergrad at Harvard when he directed a play the opening night of which was threatened by the Cuban missile crisis. But then as Delbanco tells the story, had Hitler during World War II not…
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